What's up guys I thought I would just place the gear 360 2017 side-by-side
with the gear 360 2016 and take a look at the differences. So here I've got them
in a controlled lighting environment. This is inside kind of like a corporate
building and the lighting is pretty controlled although there is natural
light coming in through the front door of the building. There I am doing a
little jig and this is looking really good on both cameras. I think they're
actually quite similar and they're handling both the shadows and the
highlights quite well. Okay so now let's look at the stitching. So I've got each
hand an equal distance from each camera and look the gear 360 is not known for
its stitching the lens is a pretty far apart so there is going to be cut off
whenever anything is too close to the camera. The solution is don't go too
close to the camera it's like that with all 360 cameras. However between these
two the Gear 360 2016 has a more noticeable seam line in a more
noticeable cut off. The 2017 version is an improvement
however it's not perfect and here we have the resolutions of each camera. Yes
they did up the resolution with the new camera however it's just not that much
is it. It's like 200 pixels in total. It's not going to make that much difference
so for resolution don't buy this camera based on expanded resolution there are
other much better features you should buy this camera for but is not the
resolution. I mean don't get me wrong 4k video looks amazing and it's better with
the Samsung cameras than basically any other brand so really you have two of
the best 360 video cameras money can buy at the moment right here all right here
they are handheld do you see any difference in the stabilization is one
smoother than the other
stabilization has been okay for my experience so far there are definitely
better cameras so this isn't really the perfect camera to shoot with handheld
it's better putting it on a tripod for video or selfie stick for photo I don't
know about you guys but to me that 2017 version looks way more stable now when
there is much shake and it's actually a relatively smooth experience almost like
there is a gimbal underneath a 2017 camera . Now the 2016 though is
shaky as hell something that was hotly debated for my last test footage video
was the disparity in exposure between the front and back lenses in strong
sunlight so here I've replicated the setup with
the Sun really strong on one side and not on the other and you can see the
difference right in the middle of each video. Something I don't think a lot of
people realize is that this is going to be an issue regardless of which 360
camera you have if they have two lenses and one of them has a strong lens flare
it's going to be almost impossible to blend that in with the lens that does
not have a lens flare. If this is an issue for you then my advice is stay out
of strong sunlight. Okay here we have the Gear 360 2016 sound. What does it sound like? How was it?
Sound good? Got music behind me but a road over there.
Next we have the Gear 360 2017 sounds. How does it compare? Is it any
better? Hello gear 360 honestly I don't think
sound is a huge factor and for me because you just never going to get good
sound from 360 camera maybe one day but if you want a professional sound
recording you need to do it professionally with a sound recorder.
It's just like shooting video with a microphone on top of your
video camera as opposed to someone actually holding a mic while having a
lapel mic huge difference you want a professional result you need to be a
professional and invest the money in a proper sound recorder it's look these
cameras will be fine with just basic sounds anything more and want to invest in
a proper recorder alright. So here we have them both in low-light. I know what
you're thinking what the 2016 version looks better well does it yes it is
lighter but it's grainy as hell. 2017 is dark but look it's looking pretty sharp
so I wouldn't necessarily say the 2016 is better so what I'm going to do now is
even do a quick color grade and see if I can bring out the best in both cameras
okay so I brought up the exposure on the 2017 video and now it's the same as the
2016 I couldn't bring the 2016 s up very high at all only because that grain
becomes so obvious that it just ruins the image completely whereas you can see
on the 2017 the grain is much less look neither of these cameras is good and low
light however no 360 video camera is so you should stick to shooting during the
day for now. Alright guys I hope you enjoyed this comparison I'll be sure to
release firstly a review for the Gear 360 2017 but also another comparison
that goes more in depth about the specs of each of the Gear 360s. Things like
battery life, memory design all that kind of stuff in a separate video. For now I
just want to get this Fuji at you as soon as I could.
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I'll put a link in description for where you can get both these
cameras super cheap on Amazon.